This episode of Murder She Wrote has Angela Lansbury up in a Maine woods inn
where tis rumored that Edgar Allan Poe once stayed. His portrait is prominently
displayed in the lobby. And because it's the famous JB Fletcher staying there,
we get a murder for her to solve.
One in fact she witnesses. But the facts don't seem to add up as Lansbury witnesses a murder that looks a whole lot like the way Montgomery Clift did
in Shelley Winters in A Place In The Sun. Laurence Luckinbill is the husband
and Susan Blanchard is the drowned wife.
Blanchard is twice a fool as she really does turn up dead. But Lansbury believes it was all some kind of a trick and the joke was on Blanchard. She has
a hard time convincing her old friend Tom Bosley this was the case.
Not to mention a particularly ripe red herring is in the cast and it isn't Luckinbill.
I think they had to reach for a motive here, but the show was worth it.